Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c15.13

Language: English

c15.13

Most of our early writers, as Colebrooke, Wilford, Tod, and Jervis, have vitiated their chronology by placing the initial point of the Vikrama-ditya era in 56 B.C., instead of in 57 B.C., as shown by Prinsep.† The following examples from Colebrooke and Tod show how necessary it is to be strictly exact in dealing with dates:

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